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Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup (review)

Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup (review) korean studies, vol. 31 Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, edited by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter. London: Routeledge, 2002. 240 pp. $53.95 paper. This book covers the most important issues in sports today and in the context of the 2002 World Cup demonstrates how these issues are manifest. The book reaches its goals of detailing the essential preliminaries on the way to fully understanding what happened at the 2002 games and provides an informative account of the development of professional football in both Korea and Japan (p. 4). It covers the issues of critical importance: center-periphery relations related to governance in world sport; power relations between nation-states, supranational sport associations and the sport business; the media-sport-business connection and the cultural production of ideologies essentially needed to cover the emergent fissures under the surface of the "peoples' game" (p. 5). Although the articles focus on Japan and Korea, their analysis of sport goes beyond this specific context and this specific sport. Why the World Cup? What is the World Cup? "[T]he World Cup is more than just a prominent sport tournament. In fact, as a `mega-event' the World Cup is also a charismatic spectacle, a functional social http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Korean Studies University of Hawai'I Press

Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup (review)

Mori, Barbara Lynne Rowland.
Korean Studies , Volume 31 (1) – Mar 20, 2008
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korean studies, vol. 31 Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, edited by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter. London: Routeledge, 2002. 240 pp. $53.95 paper. This book covers the most important issues in sports today and in the context of the 2002 World Cup demonstrates how these issues are manifest. The book reaches its goals of detailing the essential preliminaries on the way to fully understanding what happened at the 2002 games and provides an informative account of the development of professional football in both Korea and Japan (p. 4). It covers the issues of critical importance: center-periphery relations related to governance in world sport; power relations between nation-states, supranational sport associations and the sport business; the media-sport-business connection and the cultural production of ideologies essentially needed to cover the emergent fissures under the surface of the "peoples' game" (p. 5). Although the articles focus on Japan and Korea, their analysis of sport goes beyond this specific context and this specific sport. Why the World Cup? What is the World Cup? "[T]he World Cup is more than just a prominent sport tournament. In fact, as a `mega-event' the World Cup is also a charismatic spectacle, a functional social

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